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439 articles – accelerating

Coverage peaked at 83 articles in 2022Q1 as NFT marketplaces, social platforms and major brands raced to build around digital collectibles, then shifted toward contraction and closures.

Who they are

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, appear in this coverage as blockchain-based digital assets and the foundation for marketplaces, collectible brands, games and social-media features. Stories repeatedly connect the category to OpenSea, Ethereum and Solana, as well as Bored Ape Yacht Club and its owner Yuga Labs, while platforms including Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Coinbase and GameStop explored NFT-related products.

The recent arc

More recent reporting is sparse and markedly more defensive. DappRadar data cited in June 2025 put NFT-lending volume down 97% from its January 2024 peak, while Bybit closed its NFT marketplace after X2Y2 made a similar move. OpenSea’s October 2025 story reframed it as a broader crypto-trading aggregator, and January 2026 coverage focused on Nifty Gateway entering withdrawal-only mode ahead of a planned shutdown.

The tension

The central tension is between NFTs’ earlier promise as a mass-market layer for crypto, media and social platforms and the difficulty of sustaining dedicated trading venues and financial products. OpenSea, Coinbase and GameStop represented the marketplace buildout; Yuga Labs and Bored Ape Yacht Club represented branded digital-property bets; Ethereum and Solana supplied the underlying rails but also surfaced security and transaction-cost risks. The later closures and lending decline show the category’s infrastructure being tested more harshly than its early growth narratives suggested.

Why it matters

If the current trajectory continues, NFTs may matter less as a standalone consumer-market category and more as a feature folded into broader crypto, wallet and platform products, as OpenSea’s aggregator shift suggests. That outcome is not assured: major social-platform experiments and politically branded products show the format can still be used for identity, distribution and licensing, but the coverage indicates that durable demand and safer, lower-friction market infrastructure remain unresolved.

Related: OpenSea · Ethereum · Solana · Bored Ape Yacht Club · Yuga Labs · OpenSea says 32 users had NFTs stolen as part of a targeted phishing c

NFTs exploded into tech news conversation with 435 articles concentrated in 2021-2022, peaking at 84 articles in Q1 2022 during peak speculative mania before collapsing to 1-4 articles per quarter by 2025. This trajectory—sharper than any entity in this batch—reflects NFTs' transformation from cultural phenomenon to niche tooling. The corpus reveals three phases: explosive hype and celebrity adoption (2021), OpenSea dominance and Ethereum gas wars (Q1-Q2 2022), and post-crash utility exploration (2023-present). Related entities OpenSea, Twitter, Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin frame NFTs within crypto infrastructure rather than standalone category. Recent coverage stabilizes at 3-4 articles per quarter, focusing on gaming integration, legal battles, and occasional cultural artifacts rather than investment narrative. NFTs' coverage arc is complete boom-bust cycle compressed into 24 months, now relegated to occasional mentions when brands experiment or lawsuits surface.

NFT has appeared in 439 articles since 2021-02. Coverage peaked in 2023Q1 with 27 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside OpenSea, Twitter, Ethereum, Solana.

Articles
439
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.750
velocity change
Sources
75
publications

Patterns

Related Entities

OpenSea 53 Twitter 37 Ethereum 35 Solana 34 Bitcoin 22 Bored Ape Yacht Club 22 Yuga Labs 21 ETH 20 Facebook 17 Coinbase 16

Top Voices

@carnage4life 101 discussions @mdudas 27 discussions @caseynewton 21 discussions @brian_armstrong 20 discussions @opensea 20 discussions @cobie 18 discussions @wublockchain 17 discussions @dfinzer 17 discussions

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Coverage Timeline

2026-01-26
CoinDesk 8 related

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026

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2026-01-25
CoinDesk 7 related

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026

What to know: … Nifty Gateway, the non-fungible token (NFT) trading platform that was once central to the 2021 digital art boom, will shut down on Feb. 23, 2026.

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2026-01-24
CoinDesk 4 related

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026

What to know: … Nifty Gateway, the non-fungible token (NFT) trading platform that was once central to the 2021 digital art boom, will shut down on Feb. 23, 2026.

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2025-10-16
Forbes

How NFT marketplace OpenSea became a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades and $230M in NFT transactions in the first two weeks of October

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes :

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2025-06-14
New York Times 17 related

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal

Massive DeFi Bet Revealed in Disclosure Vignesh Karunanidhi / crypto.news : Trump turns crypto influence into income, ethics form shows $57m token windfall NBC News : Trump's financial disclosures rev...

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2025-06-01
Cointelegraph 4 related

DappRadar: NFT lending market volume has dropped 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity falling by 90%

Average NFT loan sizes have tanked, which DappRadar's Sara Gherghelas says means users are borrowing against low-value assets or being conservative with leverage.

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2025-04-02
Cointelegraph 13 related

Bybit shuts down its NFT marketplace, following a similar decision by NFT marketplace X2Y2; Token Terminal: daily NFT trading volume is down 70% YoY to $5.34M

Three years ago, on February 6, 2022, we launched the beta of X2Y2 with all of you by our side. Bybit : Notice: Delisting of Bybit Web3 NFT Marketplace, Inscription, and IDO Dominic Kimani / Inside Bi...

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2024-12-06
CoinDesk 13 related

Popular NFT project Pudgy Penguins plans to launch Solana-based token PENGU in 2024, with 23.5% of the 88B tokens reserved for holders of its 8,888 NFTs

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk :

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2024-11-27
Bloomberg 10 related

Kraken says it is shutting down its NFT marketplace almost two years after launching the service

The NFT fad was definitely an “emperor is wearing no clothes” moment in tech. X: @roundtablespace : KRAKEN'S NFT MARKETPLACE FADEOUT Kraken's ditching its NFT marketplace, starting Nov. 27, 2024, no m...

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2024-09-12
Cointelegraph 2 related

Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that pays artists via blockchain micropayments, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph :

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

NFT has appeared in 354 tech news articles since February 2021. The biggest stories include Sources: GameStop has hired more than 20 people to run a new division developing an NFT... and Reddit launches an NFT-based avatar marketplace with 90 profile pictures available for.... Frequently covered alongside OpenSea, Ethereum, Solana, ETH, and Twitter. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise, developer themes and away from consumer, funding.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -25pts; safety +33pts; developer +8pts
2024Q3safety -33pts; funding +67pts
2025Q2enterprise +40pts; developer -33pts; consumer -13pts

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